Virtual Teaming: Welcome to the 21st Century
Abstract
Wake up, Buck Rogers! If you arent on a virtual team now, its likely that you will be in the futureat least if you keep working. Heck, you might even lead a virtual team at some point. Wouldnt that be fun! We bet youre awake now. If we havent scared you off, please read onto learn what virtual teams mean for the future. Virtual teaming can be defined as individuals who work together to accomplish a task or tasks and either rarely meet face-to-face or never meet. Instead, they use electronic means to communicate. Virtual teams arent anything new. As far back as we, the authors, can remember, individuals collaborated across time and space to accomplish tasks. So why have virtual teams received so much attention in recent years? Well, for one reason, the Internet and other modes of communicationsuch as video teleconferencing, cell phones, and text messaginghave made this collaboration so much more effective and efficient. Instead of the good ol days, when we passed letters to each other via snail mail and waited for responses, we can now e-mail one another and receive a response back within seconds.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2008
- Accession Number
- AD1015893
Entities
People
- Jerome H. Collins
- Martin Smith
- Robert K Ernst
Organizations
- Defense Acquisition University